Baroque-O Loco Moco!

A non-Baroque-o Loco Moco

What happens when you put a hamburger, 2 polarizing meat products, fancypants gravy, rice, tree sap and 2 LA stoner/chef/surfers together?

Baroque-o Loco Moco!

Animal opened in June 2008 [in Montauk, NY] and has been packed since — one of the breed of gleefully carnivorous restaurants to flourish in recent years. Its giddy, sophisticated-stoner sensibility is best represented by the Foie Gras Loco Moco, a riff on a Hawaiian surfer dish. It consists of a hamburger, a slice of fried Spam, a wedge of seared foie gras and a quail egg, all teetering on a bed of rice and topped with teriyaki sauce, maple syrup, bordelaise and Sriracha.

            - NYT (links and emphasis mine)

Torn, I am.  Teetering.  I wouldn't kick it out of bed...but could I live with myself if I paid $35 for a loco moco?  COULD I???

Props to Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo for shoving pig nethers into East Hamptonians and Los Angeleans, of all people!

They don't mess around: Pigs ears, belly and cheeks, sweetbreads, chicken liver, poutine, head cheese, kimchee, foie gras, Spam, and a chocolate/bacon dessert all commingle into one gutsy (harhar) weed-out-the-weak menu of rare depravity.

No critter is safe.  MUAHAHAHAHA!

Comments

[Chocolate Bear]

You know damn well that $35 for a loco-moco is madness, no matter what the quality of the other ingredients they are more than offset by the presence of fried spam....

Don't do it.

[From Behind]

FOODIE

Why is it called "hamburger" when there is no pig involved?
Yes I can wikipedia it or some shit, but I like making you explain things.

Slowly. With small words. in s m a l l letters.

[EF]

Hamburger -> inexpensive chopped beef originally made by and for German-American immigrants; some say it was named by folks directly from Hamburg, Germany, others say the name is attributed to a pre-existing German dish, Hamburg steak (salisbury-steak)

more on hamburgers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Etymology